Ned is sure his many friends will appreciate his recent electoral experience. His local community, deeming it essential to raise additional funds to keep open a "senior center" and an "aquatic center", and not of course wishing to actually charge users enough for admittance to cover the cost of operations, decided to put yet another property tax increase on the ballot, for which all citizens could vote. Now, Ned's friends will appreciate that many of the local voters, such as geezers, teens over 18, university students, and renters, do not actually PAY any property tax, so they would be only too likely to support raising the taxes of those who do, to pay for the "services" they deem important. Ned can now report that the tax passed with a two-to-one vote in favor, ensuring that yet more groups can have city services, paid for entirely by someone else.
One of Ned's associates referred to this process as 'representation without taxation,' and Ned is glad to report that democracy, American style, is stiil alive and well.
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